Academic Background

Affiliations

• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Post-doctoral Fellow, Nov 2006–Aug 2008; Mathematics Preceptor, Fall 2008–2016; Research Associate, Fall 2016–2019.
• The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Visiting Scholar & Fellow, Dec 2015–2019.
• The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy. Visiting Fellow, March 2004–Nov 2005 (with an interlude of Sep–Nov 2004).
• Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran. Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Fall 2001–Summer 2004; Resident Researcher, Fall 2000.
• Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Assistant Professor, 2000–2001.
• Columbia University, New York. Departmental Representative, Summers of 1999 and 2000; Preceptor, 1999–2000.

Education

• Columbia University, New York, NY.
  • Ph. D. in Mathematics, May 2000.
    • Dissertation: A gluing theorem for Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces. ( ps )
    • Advisor: John Willard Morgan.
    • Dissertation Committee: Masatake Kuranishi, Brian Mangum, John W. Morgan (advisor), Tomasz S. Mrowka, Duong H. Phong (chair).
  • M. Phil. in Mathematics, February 1998.
  • M. A. in Mathematics, 1995.
• Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; B.S. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, June 1993.
• Dehkhoda High-School, Karaj, Iran; High-School Diploma in Math-Physics, 1988.
• Vahdat and Jahan Schools, Karaj, Iran; Elementary and Intermediate periods, 1976–1984.

• Iran Language Institute (Kanoon-e Zabaan-e Iran), French school, N1 - N7, July 2002–March 2004.

Genealogy

> Erhard Weigel > Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz > Jacob Bernoulli > Johann Bernoulli > Leonhard Euler > Joseph Louis Lagrange > Simeon Denis Poisson > Michel Chasles > Hubert Anson Newton > Eliakim Hastings Moore > Oswald Veblen > Robert Lee Moore > Raymond Louis Wilder > Morton L Curtis > John Willard Morgan > Pedram Safari >